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In 1910, Henry Clay Frick Purchased Rembrandt Van Rijn's The Polish Rider For His Private Collection. Ever Since, The Painting Has Hung - Undisturbed And Uncontested - On The Wall Of Frick's Fifth Avenue Mansion In New York City. There, Year In And Year Out, It Has Beguiled Thousands Of Visitors. The Painting's Subject Matter Has Been Debated Over The Years - But Never Its Author, Or Its Impact On Viewers, Many Of Whom Think It Not Just A Rembrandt But One Of The Finest Paintings The Master Executed During His Long, Prolific Career. In 1968, A Group Of Dutch Scholars Known As The Rembrandt Research Project, Feeling That The Master's Oeuvre Was Inflated, Began To Take Rembrandt To Task. The Group's Members Traveled Around The World, Subjecting Rembrandt To Intense Scrutiny: They X-rayed Paintings; Examined The Rendering Of Lace, Hands, And Signatures; Counted Threads Of Warp And Woof. Paintings Long Considered Rembrandts Started To Fall. Then, In 1984, One Of The Members Of The Project Suggested, In Print, That The Polish Rider Might Be Next. Perhaps This Painting, One Of The World's Masterpieces, Wasn't A Rembrandt After All But The Work Of A Lesser-known Pupil, Willem Drost. Deatt

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Author

Anthony Bailey; Rembrandt van Rijn

Publisher

Timken Publishers; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780943221182

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Arts

Rating

4 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14